Jeff Northrup There is a saying when learning to read music: “The long way is the short way.” This implies that there is no short way–that the ONLY way is to use “brute force” to learn hard things. But what if the long way sucks? What if there is a short way to learn something equally well? In Machine Learning, the brute force method involves ever-increasing amounts of data, time, money and energy. The scenario sometimes looks like this: You are training the 5th model to accomplish your...